HB 1342-FN - AS AMENDED BY THE HOUSE
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2000 SESSION
08/09
HOUSE BILL 1342-FN
AN ACT directing the department of environmental services to adopt concentration limits for certain compounds in land applied sludge.
COMMITTEE: Environment and Agriculture
This bill directs the department of environmental services to adopt by rule, in consultation with the health risk assessment bureau, concentration limits for each volatile and semi-volatile organic compound that the department requires testing for in sludges that are land applied. This bill also directs the department to initiate rulemaking within 18 months for certain specified compounds.
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Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
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00-2321
08/09
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand
AN ACT directing the department of environmental services to adopt concentration limits for certain compounds in land applied sludge.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Department of Environmental Services; Concentration Limits for Volatile and Semi-volatile Organic Compounds in Sludge. The department of environmental services shall use its existing statutory authority to adopt by rule, in consultation with the health risk assessment bureau under RSA 125-H:3, II, concentration limits for each volatile and semi-volatile organic compound that the department requires testing for in sludges that are land applied. The department shall initiate rulemaking under RSA 541-A within 18 months of the effective date of this act for the following compounds:
I. Bis(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate.
II. Benzo(a)pyrene.
III. Benzo(a)anthracene.
IV. Benzidine.
V. Acetone.
VI. 4-Chloroaniline.
VII. Carbon disulfide.
VIII. Chloroform.
IX. Methylene chloride.
X. 2-Butanone (MEK).
XI. 2-Hexanone.
XII. 4-Methyl phenol.
XIII. 1,2 Dichloroethane.
XIV. Dichlorobromomethane.
XV. Dibromochloromethane.
XVI. 1,1,2,2 Tetrachloroethane.
XVII. 1,2 Dibromo-3-chloropropane.
XVIII. 1,2 Dibromoethane.
XIX. Phenol.
XX. Benzo(b)fluoranthene.
XXI. Benzo(k)fluoranthene.
XXII. Toluene.
XXIII. Tetrachloroethene.
XXIV. O,m,&p Dichlorobenzene.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
LBAO
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12/7/99
HB 1342-FN - FISCAL NOTE
AN ACT relative to measurements of heavy metals and other compounds in sludge.
FISCAL IMPACT:
The Department of Environmental Services has determined this bill will increase local expenditures by an indeterminable amount in FY 2001 and each year thereafter. There will be no fiscal impact on state and county expenditures or state, county and local revenue.
METHODOLOGY:
The Department stated this change will result in a significant increase in sludge disposal costs for towns and cities which produce sludge. This is because a significant portion of the sludge produced in the state would be classified and regulated as hazardous if the concentrations of certain contaminants were expressed on a dry weight basis. As such, the affected sludge would have to be disposed of out-of-state (average $90/ton), which is much more costly than in-state (average $30/ton) disposal options now available. An exact estimate cannot be prepared because the percentage of sludge that would be classified as hazardous waste under the proposed change is not known.